Goatfucker makes him laugh, unexpected as it is—he grins into his shoulder, and savors the feeling of it.
"We'd say iov'direlan, bear puncher. Like... you were stupid and you made it the clan's problem."
Doesn't have quite the same visceral flair as goatfucker does, though. Trade is good for some things.
"Dunno. He wasn't at the meeting point, that was all Venatori, so either he's gotten away with it or he's dead, I guess."
Neither prospect seems to bother or please Talin more than the other—either way, it'd be more work for him to find out than it's worth, and if the man is somehow still alive, killing him wouldn't change what happened. It would only feel good for a second, it wouldn't unbreak Teren's ribs. It wouldn't grow the skin of Talin's feet back, or his nails, or unblack his eye.
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"We'd say iov'direlan, bear puncher. Like... you were stupid and you made it the clan's problem."
Doesn't have quite the same visceral flair as goatfucker does, though. Trade is good for some things.
"Dunno. He wasn't at the meeting point, that was all Venatori, so either he's gotten away with it or he's dead, I guess."
Neither prospect seems to bother or please Talin more than the other—either way, it'd be more work for him to find out than it's worth, and if the man is somehow still alive, killing him wouldn't change what happened. It would only feel good for a second, it wouldn't unbreak Teren's ribs. It wouldn't grow the skin of Talin's feet back, or his nails, or unblack his eye.